A pedestrian was critically injured Friday night in an apparent hit-and-run incident in Prince George's County, the county police said. The incident occurred about 9:45 p.m. in the 6300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in the Coral Hills/Suitland area. Authorities said...

Updated, 7:55 p.m. A Prince George's County police officer shot and wounded a man in the Clinton area late Friday while trying to stop an apparently stolen car, police said. The officer spotted the car on Brandywine Road about 4:30...

"Get Up and Go!" The White House says that's the theme of this year's Easter Egg Roll, set for Monday, April 25. The event will feature music, sports, cooking stations, story times and the rolling of hard-boiled eggs on the...

A man believed to be the "East Coast Rapist" has been arrested in Connecticut, authorities said. The suspect has committed attacks spanning 13 years, beginning in Prince George's County in the late 1990s, moving into Virginia and then up to...

UPDATE: Metro reports that a person has been struck by a train at the Rockville station. Metro spokesman Lisa Farbstein said Metro received the report at 12:21 p.m., and the accident occurred on the Glenmont-bound tracks, Dr. Gridlock reports. The...

The Virginia Historical Society is creating an online database that will contain the names and personal information about formerly enslaved African-Americans. The project is called "Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names." It is financed by a $100,000...

State wildlife officials say a harsh winter contributed to a 15 percent decline in the number of deer killed during Virginia's 2010-2011 hunting season. The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries says hunters reported 219,797 kills statewide, compared to...

A man was shot Thursday night in SE Washington, but his wounds were not belived to be life threatening, D.C. police said. Police spokesman Hugh Carew said officers were called to the 1600 block of 17th St. SE about...

This story has been updated. A two-alarm fire at an apartment building in Capitol Hill has been knocked down, D.C. fire officials said Thursday night. Firefighters got a call of a fire on the third floor of a six-story...

Two construction workers were trapped atop a cherry picker truck while working outside of a Northwest Washington school and D.C. firefighters were preparing to rescue them, authorities said. Rescue crews were called to Key Elementary School in the 5000 block...

A Prince George's County public schools employee is being investigated for watching pornographic films on the job, according to a school spokeswoman. The internal investigation involves a February incident in which several employees complained that an Information Technology employee was...

Maryland is ending its crab license buyback program after retiring nearly 700 over the past year and a half. The Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday that the limited crab catcher commercial license buyback program will end March 11. Many...

National Park Service Chief Horticulturalist Rob DeFeo says Washington's famed cherry trees will be in peak bloom from March 29 to April 3. It is an announcement closely watched by a tourist industry that reaps $150 million from the National...

Several buildings in the 2600 block of Douglas Road SE were evacuated early Thursday morning after a trash vehicle hit a gas meter, D.C. Fire and EMS report. Firefighters have shut off gas in the area. The evacuations are said...

A man was shot and seriously wounded Wednesday night in the hallway of a Temple Hills apartment building, Prince George's County police said. Witnesses heard the sound of gunshots and then saw a man on the hallway floor of...

A male was shot Wednesday night in the parking lot of a Beltsville area apartment complex, Prince George's County police said. Officers were called to a complex in the 3900 block of Lakehouse Road for a shooting and found...

Update, 10:50 p.m.: Four young children escaped an apartment fire in Northeast D.C. on Wednesday night, but a 4-year-old boy was in critical condition after suffering smoke inhalation, D.C. fire officials said. Firefighters found the 4-year-old unconscious in a...

Update, 6:45 p.m.: D.C. fire and rescue spokesman Pete Piringer now says that three students on the school bus were taken to hospitals for evaluation today, in addition to a school-bus aide and five Metro passengers. Update, 6:15 p.m.:...

UPDATE: Fairfax County police have now determined that the items found in the vacant house were not dynamite, but rather traffic flares, Officer Don Gotthardt said. Residents are being allowed to return to their homes. Possible dynamite discovery in Va....

This post has been updated. D.C. Fire department officials said about 20 high school students were in two sculls or skiffs Wednesday afternoon that capsized on the Potomac River, but none were seriously injured. The students, from McLean High School,...

Phone calls. E-mails. Text messages. Diana Mayhew, president of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, has gotten them all Wednesday from concerned patrons after The Washington Post reported that one of the festival’s most popular events – the Sakura Matsuri Japanese...

This post has been updated. A US Park Police motorcycle officer was injured Wednesday morning in a traffic accident on the Southwest Freeway near Seventh Street SW, authorities said. The officer's suffered "pretty substantial injuries," although not life-threatening, said Sgt....

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) is proposing a 5-cent fee for paper and plastic bags at grocery stores in the county, The Gazette reports. If his plan is approved, Leggett said it would go into effect Jan. 1, 2012....

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Updates to correct attribution: A teenage male was stabbed and seriously wounded late Tuesday night on a Metrobus in Southeast Washington, authorities said. The stabbing occurred about 10:45 p.m. in the 2200 block of Pomeroy Road SE, a stop...

Update, 10 p.m.: Nearly 30 people were displaced from their homes tonight after a fire damaged 15 apartments in an apartment building in the Cheverly area. Prince George's County fire department spokesman Mark Brady said 22 adults and five children...

Homeowners in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia are being encouraged to plant more plants this spring to help Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. The effort announced Tuesday by the Chesapeake Bay Program aims to increase planting as a way...

Views of Washington’s famous cherry blossoms are still free. But the popular Japanese culture street fair that culminates the two-week-long National Cherry Blossom Festival no longer is. For the first time in its 51-year history 15 years, the Sakura Matsuri...

Prince George's County firefighters helped four people to safety after a blaze broke out in a District Heights apartment building Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Emergency responders were called to the three-story building in the 6800 block of Walker Mill Road...

Downtown Washington will soon have more recycling options thanks to a partnership between city officials and PepsiCo. More than 350 recycling bins will be placed downtown under the new initiative announced Tuesday. Richard Bradley, executive director of the Downtown D.C....

About 40 trucks have rolled by the Maryland State House to protest a proposed gas tax increase. The Maryland Motor Truck Association and the Mid-Atlantic Petroleum Distributors Association held a rally in Annapolis on Tuesday. Mel Fair of the Beltway...

A University of Virginia study shows a significant number of households across the state lack enough income and cash assets to cover basic needs and unplanned expenses. The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service study also shows the federal poverty...

Frederick police have arrested a man and woman and are looking for more leads after they seized cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, PCP and $33,000 in cash in two drug raids a week apart, said Lt. Clark Pennington, a police spokesman,...

The mother of a teen killed in a 2008 medevac is suing the Federal Aviation Administration alleging that air traffic controllers gave the pilot inaccurate weather information. The suit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt by Stephanie...

A woman was killed early Tuesday in a car crash in the 3rd Street Tunnel, D.C. police said. The crash occurred within a few minutes of midnight in the southbound lanes of the tunnel, according to police. The site of...

The District Department of Health has issued an alert to residents and visitors about a potential measles exposure in some areas of the city between Feb. 20-22. Officials list the following locations as possible sites for exposure: D1 or D6...

D.C.'s summer jobs program for city youth is booked, Mike DeBonis reports over at his blog. By mid day, 12,000 city youth had applied for summer jobs, reaching the cap on this year's program set by Mayor Vincent C. Gray....

A man who injured three people in a 2009 knife attack at the Embassy of Togo in Washington was sentenced Monday to time served and will likely be deported. Under a plea agreement with prosecutors, Kokou Bocco pleaded guilty in...

Dozens of people gathered Sunday in Anne Arundel County for a groundbreaking ceremony for a garden that will honor Coretta Scott King, The Baltimore Sun reports. The Coretta Scott King Memorial Gardens is a $200,000 living memorial to Scott King,...

D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown "inappropriately requested" that District officials violate the law by providing him a leased Lincoln Navigator SUV that cost taxpayers $2,000 a month, Tim Craig reports over at the D.C. Wire. According to a report issued...

A plane scheduled to land at Reagan National Airport Monday morning was diverted to Dullles Airport after experiencing possible engine problems, according to D.C. Fire and EMS. The agency was notified about 7:45 a.m. that a plane appeared to be...

A major stretch of Skyline Drive reopened Sunday in Shenandoah National Park after being closed for a week because of a fire, the park said. Also, all park trails that had been closed because of the Smith Run fire have...

Fire broke out Sunday in a building at Andrews Air Force Base, authorities said. The fire was in a residence in a housing area on the base, which is the home of Air Force One, the presidential aircraft. A base...

Less than a minute after Tunisia's prime minister resigned Sunday in a speech on national television, the massive crowd filling this city's Casbah Square suddenly halted the angry chants that had continued around the clock for days.